Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4

7.3. Assembly Resources

Assembly resources in a WPF application work in essentially the same way as assembly resources in other .NET applications. The basic concept is that you add a file to your project, so that Visual Studio can embed it into your compiled application's EXE or DLL file. The key difference between WPF assembly resources and those in other applications is the addressing system that you use to refer to them.

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Assembly resources are also known as binary resources because they're embedded in compiled assembly as an opaque blob of binary data.

You've already seen assembly resources at work in Chapter 2. That's because every time you compile your application, each XAML file in your project is converted to a BAML file that's ...